pride Quotes

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted it was worth knowing.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

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“Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God he knows, thy share thereof is small.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonour, must have a proud and a powerful soul.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Av'rice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On fire.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more Perfection, the cause of Man's error and misery.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

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